When we see Unit-01 still connected to Lilith, she's featureless, and doesn't seem to become the shape we recognise until post Contact Experiment. Meanwhile, Adam's progeny show us that AT Fields can manipulate physical form beyond the instructions of the genome. The AT Field comes from the soul.

What happened to Kyoko's soul? It was torn in half. Initially only half remained with Unit-02, but it's generally accepted that the rest was salvaged in later. Perhaps the four eyes are a result of the two halves failing to reconverge, resulting in essentially two overlaid Souls. The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Voted in college to be Most likely to Take Over the World, how to do that however, will require at leastFour Evangelions. Thanks for the idea Misato-san!"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Said at the beginning of the nuclear age by J. Robert Oppenheimer."That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Words of Wisdom from German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

I like it as a Doyleist explanation for why Eva-02 might look that way (even if the split-soul thing was reverse-engineered from the idea of giving an Eva four eyes). Watsonian-wise, it's rather weak, IMO.

First, it doesn't address Eva-02's other oddities. The simplest and thus best explanation would account for everything.

Next, "eyes are a window into the soul" is a common metaphor, yes, but that does not translate into "a not entirely unified soul is going to make its body grow extra eyes". I could see, maybe, Eva-01's green eyes being a result of Yui's influence -- here, green eyes are an actual trait remembered by the soul that could be passed onto the new body via epigenetic magic. If the idea here is that two separate soul-pieces are each "remembering" a complete Kyoko body, then why stop at duplicating eyes? Why not other body parts? If the eyes have been explicitly influenced by Kyoko's soul(s) -- one pair being EXCLUSIVELY the result of spiritual influence -- then why are they such a weird color?

Last, how would the restraints placed upon Evas even allow such extreme metamorphosis at all? You see your Eva growing new body parts out of nowhere, you put that beast on ice and diagnose the problem, stat.

ACGT-Samael wrote:Something actually occurred to me about the four eyes thing.

When we see Unit-01 still connected to Lilith, she's featureless, and doesn't seem to become the shape we recognise until post Contact Experiment. Meanwhile, Adam's progeny show us that AT Fields can manipulate physical form beyond the instructions of the genome. The AT Field comes from the soul.

What happened to Kyoko's soul? It was torn in half. Initially only half remained with Unit-02, but it's generally accepted that the rest was salvaged in later. Perhaps the four eyes are a result of the two halves failing to reconverge, resulting in essentially two overlaid Souls. The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Dualism and shit.

Seriously though that's a legitimate theory I'm putting forward.

Splitting in halves is a motif throughout Eva. What comes to mind are

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Asuka's right arm splitting in half in 25', Lilith's face splitting in half in 26', and the blood from Lilith's neck that dries around Earth post-instrumentality only surrounds half of the Earth, creating a half comet. It's also worth noting that the half of Lilith's face that's lost is the same half that Asuka has bandaged in the epilogue.